Germany, France Get '17 Hockey Worlds Emirates Renews PSG Shirt Deal ARD With Season Best Bundesliga Ratings F1 IPO On Track Despite Legal Issues F1's Ecclestone Proposes Chassis Share UEFA Signs Sponsorship Deal With SOCAR Swedish Ticnet To Donate To Player Fund David Beckham Hangs Up His Boots FC Barcelona Plans Facilities Investment Barça, Real Open To Selling TV Rights
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Int'l Ice Hockey Federation Awards 2017 World Championship To Germany, France05 / 20 / 13The 2013 Int'l Ice Hockey Federation Annual Congress allocated the 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship to Cologne, Germany and Paris. The German-French bid received 63 votes from the delegates. The other bid with Copenhagen, Denmark and Riga, Latvia got 45 votes. Cologne is a well-known venue fo... Tags: Events and Attractions, Europe |
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Emirates Renews PSG Shirt Deal
Ligue 1 champions Paris St. Germain and Dubai airlines Emirates "extended their shirt sponsorship deal by another five years on Friday," according to Julien Pretot of REUTERS. Neither PSG President Nasser al-Khelaifi nor Emirates Exec VP Thierry Antinori "were prepared to reveal the official value o ...
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ARD With Season Best Bundesliga Ratings
German public broadcaster ARD "has recorded season-best ratings for its Bundesliga games highlight show 'Sportschau'" on Saturday, according to David Grzeschik of QUOTENMETER. A total of 4.87 million viewers tuned in at 6pm German time to watch the highlights of the last Bundesliga matchday. The sho ...
F1 IPO On Track Despite Legal Issues
A source close to private equity firm CVC Capital said that the company is targeting a $12B market capitalization for F1 "in its planned flotation on the Singapore stock exchange," according to Sylt & Reid of the London GUARDIAN. The initial public offering (IPO) of F1 "is on track to take place ...
F1's Ecclestone Proposes Chassis Share
F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone "has proposed that Formula One teams be able to sell chassis to each other, a shake-up that would save tens of millions of pounds," according to Christian Sylt of the London EXPRESS. The use of so-called "'customer cars' reflects the situation with F1’s engines, which ...
UEFA Signs Sponsorship Deal With SOCAR
UEFA has signed a sponsorship agreement with SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic) as official sponsor of UEFA's national team competitions, including the UEFA European Football Championship. As part of this partnership, SOCAR will already be included in the commercial program for this su ...
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Swedish Ticnet To Donate To Player Fund
A Swedish ticket agency accused of profiting from a charity football match for a deceased player has said that "it will make a donation to a fund set up in his memory," according to Philip O'Connor of REUTERS. Swedish football side AIK had staged a charity match with Dynamo Zagreb after its "Croatia ...
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David Beckham Hangs Up His Boots
DAVID BECKHAM "has retired from football," according to Sarah Ebner of the LONDON TIMES. The 38-year-old, who "transcended the sport," has decided "to call it a day after winning the league title in France with Paris Saint-Germain." He is the first British player to win such a title in four differ ...
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FC Barcelona Plans Facilities Investment
La Liga Champion Barcelona is planning nearly $2.5M in upgrades to its facilities during the offseason. As it does "every season, the club will replace Camp Nou stadium's grass field, but this year it will also install a heating system that the technicians consider the best solution," accordin ...
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Barça, Real Open To Selling TV Rights
Spanish Football League (LFP) President Javier Tebas said that Barcelona and Real Madrid "are open to collectively selling broadcast rights in La Liga, but only if their income does not decrease," according to FOOTBALL ESPAÑA. The top two clubs currently account for a 50% share ...
FA Settles On 5-Match Racism Ban
The FA "has voted to introduce a minimum ban of five matches for any player found to have racially abused an opponent," in the wake of the furore over the John Terry and Luis Suárez incidents, according to Owen Gibson of the London GUARDIAN. The proposal, accepted at the FA's annual general m ...
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